Common Names
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Common Names in Afrikaans:
Witrugstrandloper
Common Names in Dutch:
Bairds Strandloper
Common Names in English:
Baird's Sandpiper, BairdÃŒs Sandpiper, Grass-Bird
Common Names in French:
Bècasseau De Baird, Bécasseau De Baird, Bécasseau De Baird
Common Names in German:
Baird-Strandläufer, Bairdstrandläufer
Common Names in Italian:
Gambecchio Di Baird
Common Names in Japanese:
ヒメウズラシギ
Common Names in Russian:
Berdov Pesochnik
Common Names in Spanish:
Correlimos De Baird, Playero De Baird
Description
Physical Description
Adult : Body: Breast: buffy Rump : dark Size: fairly small Wings: Shape : long.Adult Breeding Season : Head : Crown: streaked with black and buff Bill: blackish with brown base Neck: Foreneck: washed with dull buff and finely streaked with dark brown Throat : white Body: Belly: white Breast: buff, streaked with dark brown Mantle: feathers blackish with broad, buff edges Rump: blackish Sides: buffy-white Size: fairly small Upperparts: grayish-brown with faint dusky streaking Legs : Leg Color: black Wings: Shape: long.Adult Summer: Head: buff with fine streaks Face : Eyeline: pale Bill: dark Curvature: straight, slightly drooped at tip Body: Back: buff streaked with brown Breast: buff with fine streaks Underparts: white Legs: Foot Color: blackish Leg Color: blackish.Adult Winter: Bill: blackish with brown base Neck: Foreneck: washed with dull buff and finely streaked with dark brown Throat: white Body: Belly: white Breast: washed with dull buff and finely streaked with dark brown Rump: blackish Sides: buffy-white Size: fairly small Upperparts: grayish-brown with faint dusky streaking Legs: Leg Color: black Wings: Shape: long.Immature: Head: Crown: streaked with black and buff Bill: blackish with brown base Neck: Foreneck: washed with dull buff and finely streaked with dark brown Throat: white Body: Belly: white Breast: buff with indistinct, dark streaking Mantle: feathers blackish with white fringe Rump: blackish Sides: buffy-white Size: fairly small Upperparts: grayish-brown with faint dusky streaking Legs: Leg Color: black Wings: Shape: long.
Size/Age/Growth
About 7.5 inches long, with a wingspan of 15 to 16.5 inches. Adults weigh about 1.4 ounces .
Habitat
Seen along mud flats.
Vegetation: freshwater lakes and ponds, alkaline lakes, coastal sand beaches and mudflats, freshwater marshes • Maximum Elevation: 4,600 meters • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: High
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,999 meters (0 to 13,120 feet).[1]
Biology
Diet
Primarily:
Aquatic
Invertebrates
Reproduction
- Clutch Size: 4
- Length of Incubation : 20-22 days
- Days to Fledge : 16-20
- Number of Broods: 1
Migration
Migratory
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Ciconiiformes
()
- Albatrosses, Alcids
- Order:
Ciconiiformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
White-Rumped Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper
Members of the genus Calidris
There are approximately 59 species in this genus:
C. acuminata (Siberian Pectoral Sandpiper) · C. alba (Ruddy Plover) · C. alba alba (Ruddy Plover) · C. alba rubida · C. alpina (Black-Bellied Sandpiper) · C. alpina actites · C. alpina alpina (Black-Bellied Sandpiper) · C. alpina arctica (Dunlin) · C. alpina arcticola · C. alpina centralis · C. alpina hudsonia · C. alpina kistchinski · C. alpina pacifica (Dunlin) · C. alpina sakhalina · C. alpina schinzii (Dunlin) · C. arenaria · C. bairdi · C. bairdii (BairdÃŒs Sandpiper) · C. canutus (Red-Breasted Sandpiper) · C. canutus canutus (Red-Breasted Sandpiper) · C. canutus islandica · C. canutus piersmai · C. canutus rogersi · C. canutus roselaari · C. canutus rufa (Red Knot) · C. canutus rufus · C. cooperi · C. ferruginea (Curlew Sandpiper) · C. ferrugineus · C. feruginea (Curlew Sandpiper) · C. fuscicollis (White-Rumped Sandpiper) · C. himantopus (Stilt Sandpiper) · C. maritima (Purple Sandpiper) · C. maritima belcheri · C. maritima littoralis · C. maritima maritima (Purple Sandpiper) · C. mauri (Western Semipalmated Sandpiper) · C. melanotos (Pectoral Sandpiper) · C. minuta (Little Stint) · C. minutilla (Least Or Sandpiper) · C. minutus · C. ptilocnemis (Commander Sandpiper) · C. ptilocnemis couesi (Rock Sandpiper) · C. ptilocnemis ptilocnemis (Pribilof Rock Sandpiper) · C. ptilocnemis quarta (Rock Sandpiper) · C. ptilocnemis tschuktschorum (Rock Sandpiper) · C. pusilla (Semi-Palmated Sandpiper) · C. pusillus · C. ruficoilis · C. ruficolis · C. ruficollis (Rufous-Necked Sandpiper) · C. subminuta (Long-Toed Stint) · C. temminchii · C. temmincki · C. temminckii (TemminckÂ’s Stint) · C. temminkii · C. tenuinostris · C. tenuirostris (Eastern Asiatic Knot) · C. testacea
More Info
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Further Reading
- A checklist of the vertebrate animals of Kansas / George D. Potts, Joseph T. Collins. [Lawrence, Kan.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1991. ENG url p. 10.
- Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
- An Arctic ecosystem: the coastal tundra at Barrow, Alaska / edited by Jerry Brown [et al.]. Stroudsburg, Pa.: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross: c1980. ENG url p. 444, p. 449.
- An ecological characterization of Coastal Maine (north and east of Cape Elizabeth) / Stewart I. Fefer and Patricia S. Schettig: principal investigators. Newton Corner, Mass.: Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Region, 1980. ENG url p. 5.
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Birds in Kansas / Max C. Thompson & Charles Ely. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History: c1989- ENG url p. 252.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. ENG url p. 189.
- Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
- Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931- ENG url p. 49, p. 78.
- Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Length and wingspan info.)
- The Great Basin naturalist. Provo, Utah, M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University. ENG url p. 42, p. 519, p. 600.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. Calidris bairdii. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 16 providers.
- Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, and quot;Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds, and quot; in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
- Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- Avian Knowledge Network: Macaulay Library - Video Data
- Bird Studies Canada: BC Coastal Waterbird Survey
- Bird Studies Canada: Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas 2001-2005
- Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: North West Territories and Nunavut Bird Checklist, Canada
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Royal British Columbia Museum
- Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
- Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Bird Collection
- Finnish Museum of Natural History: Hatikka Observation Data Gateway
- GBIF-Sweden: Birds (GBIF-SE:Artdatabanken)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bay of Fundy Species List (OBIS Canada)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- Royal Ontario Museum: Bird specimens
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
- UCLA-Dickey Bird Collection (UCLA-Dickey): Bird specimens
- UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
- University of Alberta: University of Alberta Ornithology Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851107
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-176655
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13832376
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 176655
- IUCN ID: 49083
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNNF11120
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 7537
Footnotes
- Mean = 496.030 meters (1,627.395 feet), Standard Deviation = 590.690 based on 5,392 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
